SAP and Oracle battled in the courts over illegal downloads and software copyright rules. When the dust finally settled, Oracle was the winner and the jury awarded the company $1.3 billion in copyright infringement awards but now Oracle is demanding $212 million in interest payments from SAP as well.

The patent at issue in the patent infringement trial of Bright Response v. Google and Yahoo is not valid, an expert witness claimed last week. “My opinion is the ‘947 patent is invalid for obviousness and anticipation,” Dr. L. Karl Branting, a computer scientist hired by the defense to make a judgment about the patent’s validity, said as the trial continued here in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas.